2990

Man, that writer’s name is Sin Vega. I’m jealous.

2991

I suspect Sin picked her own name. You could too. Just gotta do the legal name change.

2992

Make space for The Hulk Balrog!

  • the man formerly known as “Left Empty”
2993

The long in development Mother 4 fan game has wisely decided to distance themselves from Nintendo’s IP. The project is now called Oddity, and it will be out WID.

2994

2995

I bought Dicey Dungeons over the sale and played two games. It definitely starts off on the easy side. In what way does the game change as you get further along the difficulty path? Are new items available? Do you just play harder versions of the same monsters?

I like the mechanics but can see it getting repetitive if not enough is changed up.

2996

I said this over in the weekend thread, not realizing you brought it up here. I think DD does an admirable job of mixing stuff up. Eventually you’ll unlock class quest lines, where each stage puts a new special rule in place that can very much change the dynamic of the game. It also gets a lot harder. My guess is you’ll like it.

2997

I’m still early on. I just unlocked the third class but haven’t played it. Cool. I’m glad there will be things to change it up.

2998

I’ll second that you should keep going. Ez mode turns off once you get past the robot class run (also, robot is best).

2999

I just won with the robot, and yeah, I agree it has been the most fun so far.

3000

Did you go for the Ultima weapon, or are you boring? I’m boring.

3001

Yep. I loved it!

For some reason it took me a little while to realize I could use my dice and still keep rolling for the jackpot.

3002

Wow, I asked that semi-facetiously because to me, Buster sword was so obviously better! That’s wild that it worked out for you, I want to see that run. There are two kind of people in this world, I suppose.

3003

I had the other thing that made the jackpot range bigger, and then I upgraded it so it would get bigger by 2. I had a lot of times where I got the 2X damage since I got a jackpot. The gambling aspect of the robot made it pretty fun.

3004

IGF Nominations are up, and full of indie games that are worth playing!

(Impressive showing by Mutazione and Lonely Mountains: Downhill in particular.)

Seumas McNally Grand Prize
Eliza (Zachtronics)
A Short Hike (Adam Robinson-Yu)
Untitled Goose Game (House House)
Mutazione (Die Gute Fabrik)
Slay the Spire (Mega Crit Games)
Anodyne 2: Return to Dust (Sean Han Tani & Marina Kittaka)

Honorable Mentions: Katana ZERO (Askiisoft); Lonely Mountains: Downhill (Megagon Industries); Song of Bloom (Philipp Stollenmayer); Wide Ocean, Big Jacket (Turnfollow); Elsinore (Golden Glitch); Astrologaster (Nyamyam); Heaven’s Vault (inkle)

Excellence in Visual Art
Mutazione (Die Gute Fabrik)
Knights and Bikes (Foam Sword)
Void Bastards (Blue Manchu)
Creature in the Well (Flight School Studio)
Eastward (Pixpil)
Stone Story RPG (Martian Rex / standardcombo)

Honorable Mentions: LUNA The Shadow Dust (Lantern Studio); Eastshade (Eastshade Studios); Minute of Islands (Studio Fizbin); Katana ZERO (Askiisoft); Song of Bloom (Philipp Stollenmayer); A Short Hike (Adam Robinson-Yu); Creaks (Amanita Design)

Excellence in Audio
Observation (No Code)
Vectronom (Ludopium)
Astrologaster (Nyamyam)
Knights and Bikes (Foam Sword)
Mutazione (Die Gute Fabrik)
Untitled Goose Game (House House)

Honorable Mentions: Afterparty (Night School Studio); Kind Words (lo fi chill beats to write to) (Popcannibal); Manifold Garden (William Chyr Studio); Alt-Frequencies (Accidental Queens); Don’t Look (Don’t Look Team); Lonely Mountains: Downhill (Megagon Industries); Tales From Off-Peak City Vol. 1 (Cosmo D)

Excellence in Design
Katana ZERO (Askiisoft)
Lonely Mountains: Downhill (Megagon Industries)
Slay the Spire (Mega Crit Games)
A Short Hike (Adam Robinson-Yu)
Elsinore (Golden Glitch)
Patrick’s Parabox (Patrick Traynor)

Honorable Mentions: Guildlings (Sirvo Studios); Nauticrawl (Andrea Interguglielmi); Blabyrinth (Sleeping Beast Games); Children of Morta (Dead Mage); Void Bastards (Blue Manchu); Untitled Goose Game (House House); Creature in the Well (Flight School Studio)

Excellence in Narrative
Mutazione (Die Gute Fabrik)
Heaven’s Vault (inkle)
Elsinore (Golden Glitch)
Wide Ocean, Big Jacket (Turnfollow)
Eliza (Zachtronics)
LIONKILLER (Sisi Jiang)

Honorable Mentions: American Election (Greg Buchanan); Night Call (Monkey Moon, BlackMuffin); Astrologaster (Nyamyam); A Short Hike (Adam Robinson-Yu); Adventures With Anxiety ! (Nicky Case); Observation (No Code)

Nuovo Award
Tales From Off-Peak City Vol. 1 (Cosmo D)
Infini (Barnaque)
The Space Between (Christoph Frey)
Life Tastes Like Cardboard (Demensa)
Promesa (Julián Palacios)
Song of Bloom (Philipp Stollenmayer)
The Longing (Studio Seufz)
PAGAN: Autogeny (Oleander Garden)

Honorable Mentions: Astrologaster (Nyamyam); Elsinore (Golden Glitch); Fit for a King (Brent Ellison & Tanya X. Short); My Exercise (Atsushi Wada, Ryoya Usuha, Nobuaki Doi); Where the Bees Make Honey (Brian Wilson); Smile For Me (Gabe Lane and Yugo Limbo / LimboLane)

Best Student Game
Orbital Bullet (SmokeStab)
A Juggler’s Tale (kaleidoscube)
Forgotten (Mutiny Games)
Neon Beats (OKYO Games)
BORE DOME (Goblin rage)
Nothing In Sight (Nothing In Sight Team)

Honorable Mentions: Unhatched (Filip Loster); Du Rejser (You Travel) (Victor Selnæs Breum + Katinka); Trail Mix (Puzzsoft); Where the Bees Make Honey (Brian Wilson); Northbound (Johannes Köberle & Arno Justus); Evergreen Blues (David Su and Dominique Star)

3005

How is it Disco Elysium is nowhere on those lists?

3006

I don’t believe it was submitted, unfortunately.

3007

Nifty little map-building game, like a table-top roll-and-write:

3008

Well there goes my afternoon.

3009

What kind of scores would be “good” for this?